The Ninth Sense: Sun-Moon-Lake and Aboriginal Village~(日月潭+九族文化村)

The story dated back to exactly three weeks ago on the day we left Kaohsiung, heading for Sun-Moon-Lake. The plan was to take the high Speed Train to Taichung and deposit our luggage in the train station. Then take the shuttle bus directly reaching Sun-Moon-Lake. Piece of advice for those who are planning to go, please allocate at least 2 nights of stay there, or else you will end up like us, totally wasted and regret~

Sun-Moon-Lake will take about a day to tour, on top of that, there is an aboriginal cultural village with theme park located there which will take another day. We on the other hand reached there around noon and left the next day noon.....Imagine what we missed....... =.=

We drag our 4 weeks luggage all the way from KMU to MRT station about 15 minutes walk away...and then take the MRT to Zuo Ying HSR Train Station~

Waiting for the HSR train in Zuo Ying Station

Finally when everyone was seated.....already looked so exhausted and tired.

You need to take another train from Taichung HSR Station to reach their bus station

Finally after alot of hard work and tiring journey, we reached our destination~

Need to take the intra-lake Shuttle bus to reach our hostel~

Here it is~ Might look abit inconspicuous, but the rooms are really great!

They even have a Japanese style room for the high turnover rate of Jap's travelers

The room was fit for a 3 star hotel~ But with very economic charge~

The cable car to the cultural village is just a distance walk from our hostel

The cable car station

The journey up the mountainsss were about 15 minutes

Lunch before going in

We reached the top part of the village which comprises of alot of different aboriginal villages. We decided to first tour the theme park as time was really limited and we need to be at the cable car station before 4.30pm.

The theme park was located at the foot of the mountain which required another trip of cable car~

The different villages of each tribes were visible from top~

The theme park was divided into a few themes...this is one of them - the Mayan adventures~

Special "One-Piece" exhibition in the Mayan's pyramid

Pirates of the Caribbean~~~

Imagine to be soaked to your skin in such altitude and weather~

Aladdin's Square

Now the problem is, two of us wana play, another two prefer to just watch~ That wouldn't be right, so after some persuasion, Mr. James agreed to go for pirate ship(sap sap sui la~)

Round of applause for his courage~

Before~

After~

HAHA!

Another round?~

Some persuasion of course~

Uninteresting~

Ok la~

Still acceptable~

Cheese~~~

The European Garden~

Here comes the exciting part~

Space Shot!!! Damn good~ The feeling of free fall was just exhilarating~ As though you are gona just fall and die~ Too bad time was cutting us short, or we would really go for the second and third try~

Time to return to the top for cultural village tour

Each tribe has their own cultural shows. Make sure you plan properly and take note of the timetable of each show. We missed all of them~ >.<

Showing the ritual sacrifice ceremony of one of the tribe

Witch doctors~ No doubt they were all wax, still gave a very eerie feeling~

Total time we spend in the Aboriginal Cultural Village was around 3-4 hours..... Now how much have we missed? Better not think about it~ (Heart pain.....)